The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-28
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE mugwump can save time by not reading
the party organs and merely considering him
self a bad man till 18S8.-Philadelphia Times.
BRIBERY is to be made more difficult and
costly in Chicago. Under the new law the city
will have forty eight aldermen instead of thirty
six-Pttsburg Chronicle.
EDITOR O'BRIEN is at least fortunate in his
enemies. A cause tina. has to depend upon the
assassination of its critics must be desperate,
Observation-Disclosures North American.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL GARLAND says he would
rather be laid on the shelf than seated on the
Supreme Bench. He can be elected to the former
position unanimously. -Philadephia Inquirer.
If a white man is really superior to the black
man the fact will manage to crop out once in n
while This is point which the Southern
companies low sulking in their tents should bear
in mnd.-Chicago Herald.
THE fact that it found necessary to cancel
the engagement of Mr.. Cable to lecture at Co
lumbia, S c., because of local opposition would
seem to indicate that the New South has not
outgrown the habit of intolerance. Boston
Journal
AN exchange is very much alarmed because
the Anarchists of Chicago are organizing on
''the Russian PLAN" The most efficaclous way
to meet the Russian plan" is by the good old
American plan, which consists of a stout piece
of rope with villain dangling at the downward
end of it.-Atlanta Constitution.
THERE is no disposition on the part of the
United States to coax rayish Canada away
from Great Britain. If, in the course of time,
Canada should manifest q spontaneous wish to
join this Union, then, and not before then, it
would be proper to discuss the question of
nexation seriously. The question now is simply
of mutual benefit and relef-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
THAT women to-day are subject to inequalities
of condition. unjust determinations to wages
and terms of labor. as compared with men, is o
fact. That with the ballot in their hands these
inequalities and unjust Determinations would
cease ia, we believe, certain. That they should
cease is for the interest of all the people who
labor, men and women alike. Once the work
ingmen grasp this truth. the movement for
woman suffrage will receive impetus that
will surely carry it TO vctory.-Boston Globe.
IN times when parties have great issues
real ones, indeed, except candidates-t is not
wise to say that all meE of political independ-
snail be shut OUT for they are likeliest to
prove the saving grace of their party The
campaign of 1884 ended in defeat only because
the Independent Republicans did not vote the
regular ticket WHAT reason is there to suppose
that the campaign of 1883 will have different
ending, under like conditions? Leaving out the
mugwumps will be likely to leave out those who
make the majority. -Philadepnla Evening Tele-
graph.
THE classification and organization of Ameri-
can citizens as Irish voters, or German voters,
coored voters. or Catholic voters. or Protest
ant voters, or labor voters. or capital voters. is
for every reason to be deprecated. Parties of
classes are not patriotic parties and whatever
tends to foster organize class feeling in this
country is ant-American tendency, and
tendency menacing liberty. If the Indianapolis
convention be designed to place the colored
voters before the country aggressive class
because they do not hold Offices proportional to
their numbers the leaders who have called the
convention should consider the light In which
they choose to present themselves to their fell
w-citzens 1t is that of political mercenarles,
of those ''who follow for the reward" whose
motive is not conviction. OF patriotism the
public welfare, but private and personal profit.
-Harper's Weekly.